that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily
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While current computing practice abounds with innovations like online auctions, blogs, wikis, twitter, social networks and online social games, few if any genuinely new theories have taken root in the corresponding "top" academic journals. Those creating computing progress increasingly see these journals as unreadable, outdated and irrelevant. Yet as technology practice creates, technology theory is if anything becoming even more conforming and less relevant. We attribute this to the erroneous assumption that research rigor is excellence, a myth contradicted by the scientific method itself. Excess rigor supports the demands of appointment, grant and promotion committees, but is drying up the wells of academic inspiration. Part I of this paper chronicles the inevitable limits of what can only be called a feudal academic knowledge exchange system, with trends like exclusivity, slowness, narrowness, conservatism, self-involvement and inaccessibility. We predict an upcoming social upheaval in academic publishing as it shifts from a feudal to democratic form, from knowledge managed by the few to knowledge managed by the many. The technology trigger is socio-technical advances. The drive will be that only democratic knowledge exchange can scale up to support the breadth, speed and flexibility modern cross-disciplinary research needs. Part II suggests the sort of socio-technical design needed to bring this transformation about.
Simple Facebook question raises problems around the world - 0 views
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It is debatable for networking sites to name some places, such as Taiwan, Tibet, to meet their users' needs. Recently, Facebook changed its listing for the Golan Heights under a pro-Israel group's pressure. How do social networking sites cope with these politics involved issues? It is still a question.
MySpace tanks as social networks soar - 0 views
Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry's Rules - New York Times - 0 views
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Mr. Benkler said he saw the project as "simply an experiment of how books might be in the future." That is one of the hottest debates in the book world right now, as publishers, editors and writers grapple with the Web's ability to connect readers and writers more quickly and intimately, new technologies that make it easier to search books electronically and the advent of digital devices that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable.
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For unknown authors struggling to capture the attention of busy readers, however, the Web offers an unprecedented way to catapult out of obscurity.
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Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.
Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits - 0 views
WENQIANG's Site - New-media of Social Network Becomes a Political Combat tool in the E-... - 0 views
Facebook to tighten privacy after Canadian investigation - Facebook, privacy, security,... - 0 views
The death of a gatekeeper - 1 views
Twitter turns on new 'Lists' functionality - social networking, twitter - Computerworld - 0 views
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